"Feeding is a very important ritual for me. I don't trust people who don't like to eat." (Gina Gershon) Love is an ideal thing, marriage a real thing; a confusion of the real with the ideal never goes
unpunished.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe "The difference between genius and stupidity is that genius has its limits." (Albert Einstein) It is a miracle that curiosity survives formal education.
-- Albert Einstein When a cat is dropped, it always lands on its feet, and when toast is dropped, it always lands with
the buttered side down. I propose to strap buttered toast to the back of a cat; the 2 will hover,
Recreation and Sports Abstract art: a product of the untalented sold by the unprincipled to the utterly bewildered.
-- Al Capp Usenet is like Tetris for people who still remember how to read.
-- Button from the Computer Museum, Boston, MA Is fuel efficiency really what we need most desperately? I say what we really need is a car that
can be shot when it breaks down.
-- Russell Baker Recreation and Sports
We come to love not by finding a perfect person, but by learning to see an imperfect person
perfectly.
-- Anonymous "See - one side of my face is gentle and kind, incapable of anything but love of my fellow man. The other side, the other profile, is cruel and predatory and evil, incapable of anything but lusts and You got to be careful if you don't know where you're going, because you might not get there.
-- Yogi Berra Many persons have a wrong idea of what constitutes true happiness. It is not attained through
self-gratification but through fidelity to a worthy purpose.
-- Helen Keller Imitation is the sincerest form of television.
-- Fred Allen Recreation and Sports Wind is to fire like distance is to love; it extinguishes the small and enflames the great.
-- Anonymous He who kisses the joy is it flies lives in eternity's sunrise
-- William Blake I'm living so far beyond my income that we may almost be said to be living apart.
- e e cummings Recreation and Sports
Change is not merely necessary to life, it is life.
-- Alvin Toffler "We're all proud of making little mistakes. It gives us the feeling we don't make any big ones." (Andrew A. Rooney) Love is much nicer to be in than an automobile accident, a tight girdle, a higher tax bracket, or a
holding pattern over Philadelphia.
-- Judith Viorst I tried a mail order bride, once, but she was damaged in the mail, and I had to return the unused part for my full refund. The health of the people is really the foundation upon which all their happiness and all their
powers as a State depend.
-- Benjamin Disraeli Recreation and Sports "Conscience and cowardice are really the same things. Conscience is the trade-name of the firm. That is all." (Oscar Wilde) A patriot must always be ready to defend his country against his government.
-- Edward Abbey Marriage has many pains, but celibacy has no pleasures.
-- Samuel Johnson Recreation and Sports
"Honest criticism is hard to take, particularly from a relative, a friend, an acquaintance, or a stranger." (Franklin P. Jones) Joint Checking Account: a handly little device which permits my wife to beat me to the draw. I'm worried that the universe will soon need replacing. It's not holding a charge.
-- Edward Chilton I think that I shall never see
A billboard lovely as a tree.
Indeed, unless the billboards fall,
I'll never see a tree at all.
-- Ogden Nash, Song of the Open Road, 1945 "The fact that an opinion has been widely held is no evidence whatever that it is not utterly absurd." (Bertrand Arthur William Russell, 1872-1970) Recreation and Sports To decide, to be at the level of choice, is to take responsibility for your life and to be in control of
your life.
-- Abbie M. Dale Not to anticipate is already to moan.
-- Leonardo da Vinci You cannot create experience. You must undergo it.
-- Albert Camus Recreation and Sports
"I knew I was an unwanted baby when I saw my bath toys were a toaster and a radio." (Joan Rivers) Time flies like an arrow. Fruit flies like a banana.
-- Groucho Marx Everything in the world may be endured except continued prosperity.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe What I look forward to is continued immaturity followed by death.
-- Dave Barry There are some things which cannot be learned quickly, and time, which is all we have, must be
paid heavily for their acquiring. They are the very simplest things and, because it takes a man's
life Recreation and Sports Facts do not cease to exist because they are ignored.
-- Aldous Huxley Have you ever noticed? Anybody going slower than you is an idiot, and anyone going faster than
you is a maniac.
-- George Carlin If God created us in His image we have certainly returned the compliment.
-- Voltaire Recreation and Sports
"If there is something to pardon in everything, there is also something to condemn." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche, The Will to Power, 1888) My father taught me to work; he did not teach me to love it.
-- Abraham Lincoln LOVE, n. A temporary insanity curable by marriage or by removal of the patient from the
influences under which he incurred the disorder... It is sometimes fatal, but more frequently to the
physician A scholar who cherishes the love of comfort is not fit to be deemed a scholar.
- Lao-Tzu The reason why worry kills more people than work is that more people worry than work.
-- ROBERT FROST Recreation and Sports You have to walk carefully in the beginning of love; the running across fields into your lover's
arms can only come later when you're sure they won't laugh if you trip.
-- Jonathan Carroll, Outside Computers will not be perfected until they can compute how much more than the estimate the job
will cost.
-- Anon Don't anthropomorphize computers -- they hate it.
-- Anonymous Recreation and Sports
Love is what we are born with. Fear is what we learn. The spiritual journey is the unlearning of
fear and prejudices and the acceptance of love back in our hearts. Love is the essential reality
and You can pay attention to the fact, in which case you'll probably become a mathematician, or you
can ignore it, in which case you'll probably become a physicist.
-- Len Evans, professor, Northwestern "In order to attain the impossible, one must attempt the absurd." (Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra, 1547-1616) Skill without imagination is craftsmanship and gives us many useful objects such as wickerwork
picnic baskets. Imagination without skill gives us modern art.
-- Tom Stoppard There are three great friends: an old wife, an old dog, and ready money.
-- Benjamin Franklin Recreation and Sports Nuns: Women who marry God. If they divorce Him, do they get half the universe? A thing is not necessarily true because badly uttered, nor false because spoken magnificently.
-- St. Augustine The concept is interesting and well-formed, but in order to earn better than a 'C', the idea must be
feasible.
- A Yale University management professor in response to student Fred Smith's paper prop Recreation and Sports
Nobody is more dangerous than he who imagines himself pure in heart; for his purity, by
definition, is unassailable.
-- James Baldwin, Nobody Knows My Name, 1961 To teach is to learn twice.
-- Joseph Joubert Few men have virtue to withstand the highest bidder.
-- George Washington The church must be the critic and guide of the state, and never its tool.
-- Martin Luther King, Jr. Bride: A woman with a fine prospect of happiness behind her. Recreation and Sports Grad school is the snooze button on the clock-radio of life.
-- John Rogers, comedian (who holds a graduate degree in physics) It's true that I did get the girl, but then my grandfather always said, "Even a blind chicken finds a
few grains of corn now and then."
-- Lyle Lovett, musician, upon marying actress Julia Roberts, When we honestly ask ourselves which person in our lives mean the most to us, we often find
that it is those who, instead of giving advice, solutions, or cures, have chosen rather to share our
pain Recreation and Sports
The perfect love affair is one which is conducted entirely by post.
-- George Bernard Shaw My father taught me to work; he did not teach me to love it.
-- Abraham Lincoln My darling wife was always glum. I drowned her in a cask of rum, And so made sure that she would stay, In better spirits night and day. The wages of sin are death, but by the time taxes are taken out, it's just sort of a tired feeling.
-- Paula Poundstone Doctors are the same as lawyers; the only difference is that lawyers merely rob you, whereas
doctors rob you and kill you too.
-- Anton Chekhov Recreation and Sports Reading computer manuals without the hardware is a frustrating as reading sex manuals without
the software.
-- Arthur C. Clarke "If it doesn't matter who wins or loses, then why do they keep score?" (Vince Lombardi) The heart has its reasons of which reason knows nothing.
-- Blaise Pascal, Pensées, trans. A.J. Krailsheimer Recreation and Sports
"No man means all he says, and yet very few say all they mean, for words are slippery and thought is viscous." (Henry B. Adams) The trouble with the rat race is that even if you win, you're still a rat.
-- Lily Tomlin A doctor can bury his mistakes but an architect can only advise his clients to plant vines.
- Frank Lloyd Wright In a hierarchy, every employee tends to rise to his level of incompetence. Therefore:
? In time, every post tends to be occupied by an employee who is incompetent to carry out its
duties.
? Work "Our character is what we do when we think no one is looking." (H. Jackson Brown (Jr.) Recreation and Sports Man must evolve for all human conflict a method which rejects revenge, aggression and
retaliation. the foundation of such a method is love.
-- Martin Luther King, Jr. Spinster: A bachelor's wife. "I am interested in anything about revolt, disorder , chaos--especially activity that seems to have no meaning. It seems to me to be the road toward freedom ... Rather than starting inside, I start ou Recreation and Sports
I was a pilot flying an airplane and it just so happened that where I was flying made what I was
doing spying.
-- Francis Gary Power, U-2 reconnaissance pilot held by the Soviets for spying, in an i Not everything that can be counted counts; and not everything that counts can be counted.
-- Albert Einstein "...when you have eliminated the impossible, whatever remains, however improbable, must be the truth." (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, Sherlock Holmes) It is always incomprehensible to a man that a woman should ever refuse an offer of marriage.
-- Jane Austen "A celebrity is a person who works hard all his life to become well known, then wears dark glasses to avoid being recognized." (Fred Allen) Recreation and Sports blah "Each friend represents a world in us; a world possibly not born until they arrive, and it is only in meeting them that a new world is born." (Anais Nin) It is unbecoming for young men to utter maxims.
- Aristotle "Babies are necessary to grown-ups. A new baby is like the beginning of all things--wonder, hope, a dream of possibilities. In a world that is cutting down its trees to build highways, losing its eart Recreation and Sports
